Word: freight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably later the Allan line operated at least one steamer, passenger and freight, the S. S. Nova Scotian between Baltimore and Liverpool via Halifax, N. S. and St. John...
Pressing Ex Parte 103, their case for a 15% freight rate increase before the Interstate Commerce Commission, the railroads of the land last week won their first strategic victory over shippers opposing their plea. The I. C. C. originally scheduled the opening of opposition testimony for Aug. 31. In closing their case last week the roads' witnesses vehemently contended that time was an essential consideration, that a six-weeks delay in acting on their petition might do the carriers great financial damage. Grenville Clark, attorney for banks and insurance companies with heavy rail investments, heatedly suggested that Commissioners postpone...
...their argument on a broad basis and not single out individual roads for attack. The tenor of the opposition was to be, apparently, that the roads would not increase their net revenue by rate upping because shippers would cut their consignments or find other means of transportation, thus causing freight traffic to drop even more...
Also last week the Commission ordered a revision of livestock freight rates. For the western trunk line territory whence come 40% of U. S. cattle, 60% of hogs, a 10% average upping was granted. Southwestern rates were cut 6%, while those in the Mountain-Pacific area were reduced...
...inflame his hearers more the speaker directed their attention to the death sentence passed on eight young blackamoors at Scottsboro for raping two white girls in a freight train (TIME, June 22). He denounced these sentences as "legal lynching," demanded that the black boys be retried by a black jury. Into such a frenzy of excitement and protest did he whip his audience that they were openly threatening the life of Governor Benjamin Meek Miller unless he released the condemned...